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Court and legal records 5. Similarly, the state never directly criminalised individuals questioning or changing their gender identity or expression, but certain associated characteristics were criminalised by the state. For example, cross-dressing and effeminacy in men were often deemed to be signs of homosexuality. Read our guide on crime and punishment to learn about what records survive and how to search them. Use the search boxes within the guide as a quick way to search our catalogue for relevant records. Court records can include:

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She focused on the beauty of women and proclaimed her love for girls. The terms lesbian, invert and homosexual were interchangeable with sapphist and sapphism around the turn of the 20th century. In the middle of the 19th century, medical writers attempted to establish ways to identify male homosexuality, which was considered a significant social problem in most Western societies. In categorizing behavior that indicated what was referred to as " inversion " by German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld , researchers categorized what was normal sexual behavior for men and women, and therefore to what extent men and women varied from the "perfect male sexual type" and the "perfect female sexual type". In some cases, it was not acknowledged to exist. However, sexologists Richard von Krafft-Ebing from Germany, and Britain's Havelock Ellis wrote some of the earliest and more enduring categorizations of female same-sex attraction , approaching it as a form of insanity Ellis' categorization of "lesbianism" as a medical problem is now discredited. Ellis believed that many women who professed love for other women changed their feelings about such relationships after they had experienced marriage and a "practical life".

Lewis Oswald creative director , Peter Novotny season creative Source: A history of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras [14] to [ edit ] In , after the third successful Mardi Gras parade, at community consultations, decisions were made to move the parade to the summer. For most of the decade many lesbians excluded themselves from the event.

Markowski-Leach Scholarship Fund 3 California Colleges The Markowski-Leach Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance to gay and lesbian undergraduate and graduate students who help enhance the greater society's perception of gay and lesbian people. To be eligible you must be enrolled as an undergraduate or graduate student at San Francisco State University, the University of California at Berkeley or Stanford University. You must have a GPA of 2.